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Nest. — Very lengthened in form, with hooded side-entrance, 

 and composed chiefly of brownish strips of bark with the 

 addition of a few leaves, &c., and matted with insect cocoons, 

 the inside being lined with finer material and feathers. Total 

 length, 18 inches (thus divided — top portion 7 inches, nest 

 proper 6 inches, and tail 5 inches) by a breadth of 31^ inches. 



Eggs. — Clutch, three ; oval in shape ; texture of shell fine, 

 surface slightly glossy ; colour, light pinkish buff, richly spotted 

 and blotched (thickest round the apex) with pinkish-red and 

 purplish-red. These eggs are amongst the most richly coloured 

 of all the known eggs of Australian Fly-eaters. Dimensions in 

 inches :— (i) .7 x .5, (2) .7 x .5, (3) .7 x .5. 



ACANTHIZA HALMATURINA (Dusky Tit). 



This new species was observed by the members of the ex- 

 pedition of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union which recently 

 visited Kangaroo Island, and was described by Mr. A. G. Camp- 

 bell in the last number of The Emu (vol. v., p. 141). 



Nest. — Resembles that of the Little Brown Tit {A. pitsilld), 

 but is more heavily built. One nest noticed was placed about a 

 foot from the ground in a small bush on the heath lands. 

 Another was observed about 3 feet from the ground in a short 

 prickly acacia near the coast. 



Eggs. — Clutch, three ; oval in shape ; texture of shell fine, 

 surface glossy ; colour, pearly-white, with blotches of rufous-red 

 round the apex, and sparingly spotted with the same colour 

 over the rest of the surface. Dimensions in inches : — (i) .7 x 

 .52, (2) .7 X .52, (3) .6y X .5. Amongst the largest of Acanthiza 

 eggs. 

 PORZANA FLUMINEA (Spotted Crake). 



Mr. John G. Gray, Kentucky (New South Wales), reports 

 finding a nest of this Crake, hitherto unknown, in a small swamp 

 on his run. The swamp was nearly dry on the i8th December, 

 1905, when the nest was discovered. The nest was about 6 

 inches from the water, in a knot of rushes, some of the rushes 

 being interlaced over the nest. There was no staging to the 

 nest. The clutch was four, with the small ends of the eggs 

 placed downwards. The eggs were more greenish in tone and 

 more finely marked than the two types described in " Nests and 

 Eggs," p. 745. Dimensions in inches : — (i) 1.25 x .91, (2) 1.25 

 X .82, (3) 1.22 X .89, (4) 1. 17 X .88. 



Cuckoos. 



At a meeting of the Bird Observers' Club held on the 14th 

 February, Mr. Septimus Robinson, Bathurst (New South Wales), 

 exhibited a fine collection of 46 Cuckoos' eggs, with the 

 respective eggs of the foster-parents. One remarkable feature 

 was that there were no single eggs of foster-parents — all full 

 clutches, two to four eggs, as the case may be. In all instances 



